... Training Center, Russia . ... From November 1988 to December 1990 he passed a course of training at the General Military Research Air Hospital (GMRAH) where he studied procedures of the flight personnel examination in the altitude chamber and was admitted to independent work with altitude chamber СБK-80 to provide the altitude training of cosmonauts. ... On June 7, 1996 he was enlisted as a candidate for research cosmonauts of Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center by Order of the Air Commander-in Chief....